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Citizens' Action Plan -- r TRI -STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN THE TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is a coalition offourteen environmental andpublic interest organizations in the New York / New Jersey / Connecticut metropolitan region. Connecticut Fund for the Environment. New Haven, CT 1032 Chapel Street /06510/ (203) 787-0646/ fax (203) 787-0246 • Contacts: Don Strait, Michael Stern Environmental Advocates • Albany, NY 353 Hamilton Street / 12210/ (518) 462-5526 / fax (518 ) 427-0381 • Contacts: Lee Wasserman, Loretta Simon Environmental Defense Fund. New York, NY 257 Park Avenue South /10010/ (212) 505-2100 / fax (212) 505-2375. Contact: James TB. Tripp Brian Ketcham Engineering, P.C.• Brooklyn, NY 175 Pacific Street / 11201 / (718) 330-0550 / fax (718) 330-0582 • Contact: Brian Ketcham KomanoffEnergy Associates. New York, NY 270 Lafayette Street, Room 400 / 10012/ (212) 334-9767/ fax (212) 925-2151 • Contact: Charles Komanoff Natural Resources Defense Council. New York, NY 40 West 20th Street / 10011 / (212) 727-4454/ fax (212) 727-1773 • Contact: Richard Kassel New Jersey Environmental Lobby. Trenton, NJ 204 West State Street! 08608 / (609) 396-3774 / fax (609) 396-4521 • Contact: Marie Curtis New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. Trenton, NJ 11 North Willow Street / 08608 / (609) 394-8155 / fax (609) 989-9013 • Contact: Drew Kodjak New York City Environmental Justice Alliance. New York, NY 271 West 125th Street, Room 303 / 10027/ (212) 866-4120/ fax (212) 866-4511 • Contact: Michelle DePass Regional Plan Association. New York, NY 570 Lexington Avenue, 20th floor / 10022 / (212) 980-8530 / fax (212) 980-8632 • Contact: Jeffrey Zupan Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic. Newark, NJ 15 Washington St. / 07102 / (201) 648-5695 / fax (201) 648-1249. Contacts: Ed Lloyd, Bill Sullivan, Therese Langer Scenic Hudson, Inc.• Poughkeepsie, NY 9 Vassar Street! 12601 / (914) 473-4440 / fax (914) 473-2648. Contact: Carol Sondheimer Straphangers 'Campaign / NYPIRG • New York, NY 9 Murray Street / 10007 / (212) 349-6460/ fax (212) 349-1366 • Contact: Gene Russianoff Transportation Alternatives. New York, NY 92 St. Marks Place/ 10009/ (212) 475-4600 / fax (212) 475-4551 • Contact: John Kaehny TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN 281 Park Avenue South, Second Floor /10010 / (212) 777-8181/ fax (212) 777-8157 Contacts: Janine Bauer, executive director; Jon Orcutt, associate director; James T.B. Tripp, board chair. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign's CITIZENS ACTION PLAN A 21st Century Transportation System A Vision of Our Region's Land, Cities and Communities Table of Contents Chapter 1 / Introduction and Executive Summary 1 Chapter 2 I What Needs Fixing ......... .. .................. .. 6 A. Economic Damage from Our Transportation System ........... .. 6 B. Environmental Damage from Our Transportation System. .. ... .. 16 l C. Social Damage from Our Transportation System 20 D. Drivers Don't Pay Their Way 24 E. Transportation Agencies Are Failing Us 26 Chapter 3 I Policies for a New Transportation Future. ......... .. .. 30 Chapter 4 I Transit Improvements for Our Region .. .... ...... 34 A. Maintain, Repair and Improve the Physical System 35 B. Tie the Transit Systems Together 36 C. Expand the Transit System and Services to Serve Travelers Better.. 37 D. Strengthen Rail Freight .............................. .. 44 Chapter 5 I Improving Personal Travel - Driving, Walking and Cycling. 48 A. New Options for Short Trips 48 B. Making our Automobile Infrastructure Work Better 51 C. Economic Incentives to Use Roads More Efficiently. 55 D. Effect of Tran sportation Demand Measures on VMT Reduction .. .. 64 Chapter 6 I Land Use Mea sures to Promote Center-Oriented Development and Protect Open Space . ............................ .. 68 A. Linking Transportation and Land Use Planning 68 B. Other Measures to Improve Land Use and Community Planning 70 Chapter 7 / Call to Action 74 A. Businesses and Employers . .......... .. .. .. .. ...... .. 74 . B. Land Developers 75 C. Automobile Users. ................................. .. 75 D. State Legislators and Governors . ....................... .. 76 E. Transportation Planners and Providers . .. ........... ..... .. 78 F. State Environmental Agencies 81 G. Local Government 81 Appendix 1 / New Highway Capacity Being Built or Actively Planned in the Tn-State Region . ......... .......... ...... .. .. 83 Appendix 2/ New Public Transportation for Our Region 86 A. Measures to Interconnect the Region's Rail Network 86 B. Measures to Improve Rail Access To Major Destinations 90 C. Suburban Transit via New Circumferential Rail Service 92 Appendix 3 / Estimating The Effects of Transportation Management Strat- egies for the New York/New Jersey/ Connecticut Metropolitan Region. 94 Endnotes .. ............ ... .... ... ................ 99 Chapter 1 / Introduction and Executive Summary Transportation. It affects so much of our lives. More and more, it has come to shape our lives, and to dictate to us: How we get to work in the morning and whether we're on time . Whether we're out of work because we don't have a car and can't get to jobs that left our cities and moved to office parks in the suburbs. Whether traffic tie-ups have led us to cut down on visiting friends and family. Why reliable and efficient rail can't move goods now shipped by truck . Whether the day-care center will close before the traffic jam ends.How our teenagers will get to and from their after-school activities or part-time jobs. Whether our aging relatives can get to the grocery store, the pharmacy and the doctor. Transportation should serve us, not limit us. Our future on many fronts ­ clean air, an educated workforce, a competitive marketplace, land preservation and opportunities for recreation, national energy independence - is slipping away. Our unsatisfactory transportation choices are partly to blame. If we do not begin to shape our transportation destiny differently, things will get worse. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign thinks we deserve better in our 32­ county, three-state region. We envision a region in which lack of an automo­ bile will limit no one's opportunities, in which city and town centers thrive and open spaces remain intact, in which those who choose to walk or bicycle to their destinations will find safe and pleasant routes, where the air is fit to breathe and businesses and individuals are not taxed daily by congestion and system failure. Our aim is an environmentally sound, economically efficient, and equitable transportation system. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign aims to mobilize the region to de­ mand change. Together, in the next three to five years, citizens in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state region have the power to begin restruc­ turing transportation policy, infrastructure and choices. The Campaign will employ constituency-building, technical analysis and legal advocacy to begin turning around seventy years of excessive road-building, loss of open space, suburban sprawl and urban decay. 1 Chapter 1 / Introduction And Executive Summary Two new federal laws have helped throw open this window of opportu­ The Trl·State Region nity. The Clean Air Act Amend­ The Tri-State Transportation Cam­ ments of 1990 require an unprece­ paign defines the greater New York dented cleanup of our dirty air, to be metropolitan region in its most expan­ sive form - 32 counties stretching completed by 2007. Because of air from Ocean County, NJ in the south, pollution's ongoing damage to pub­ to Hunterdon and Warren Counties, NJ In the west, Sullivan and Ulster lic health, with frightening increases Counties, NY in the northwest, and in asthma and other lung disease, the litchfield and Hartford Counties, CT law stipulates year-by-year dead­ in the Northeast (see map, next page). At times in this Plan, statistics lines, with stiff penalties for non­ are given for slightly different regional compliance. Similarly, the re­ configurations, due to data limitations. vamped highway funding law, known as ISTEA (the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991), gives states and localities the power to decide how to invest federal transportation dollars. Public involve­ ment in guiding these expenditures - $20 billion in our region between now and 1997 - could pay enormous dividends in economic efficiency, social justice and quality of life. What will the future of transportation look like physically? If we succeed in capping and reducing vehicular travel, we won't need to expand highways. Instead, we can create a much more varied transportation system. One with new and better transit options for suburbs as well as central cities. New and improved inter-suburban and reverse-commute rail. Bus and van routes with frequent, reliable service in low-density areas. More ferries. A regional transit fare card. Instant access to transit and traffic information by telephone, televi­ sion or computer. Communities with town centers and conveniences that won't require separate auto trips to reach child care, dry cleaning and food shopping. There's more . Extensive and frequent subway and light rail service through­ out our core. Rail freight to carry many more goods. Rail access to our air­ ports. No more vast parking lots for development and employment centers. Developers to have strong incentives, and in some cases requirements, to pro­ vide access by transit. Lanes set aside for safe passage of bicyclists, space to 2 Chapter 1 / Introduction And Executive Sununary load bikes on trains and buses, and
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